TALLAHASSEE – South Florida leaders on Capitol Hill are offering perception to CBS4 following President Joe Biden’s plea for Congress to pass gun control reform.
Congressman Ted Deutch known as Biden’s speech on Thursday evening highly effective. He says the steps Biden outlined for Congress to take are the identical measures mentioned on Thursday within the House Judiciary Committee.
“The House is going to do it next week,” stated Deutch about when the House will vote on gun control reform. “Then there will be pressure on the Senate. The president needs to keep leaning in to make this an issue for everybody.”
Deutch shared that Biden spoke from the guts to get to the guts of the problem.Â
“This isn’t about taking away rights,” stated Biden. “This is about protecting children, families, and whole communities.”
The president’s speech detailed greater than 20 mass shootings since 19 youngsters have been killed in a faculty in Uvalde, Texas on May 24.
“Imagine what it’s like for so many parents to hug children to hug their children goodbye in the morning and not come back home,” stated Biden. “Unfortunately, too many people don’t have to imagine that at all.”
“Should that in itself inspire both the House and the Senate to get something into law,” requested CBS4’s Joe Gorchow of Deutch.
“We cannot lose sight of the fact that if we don’t act, more people are going to continue to die,” stated Deutch. “It happens almost every day now.”
Another taking pictures occurred Thursday at a funeral in Wisconsin. The day earlier than, a gunman killed 4 in Tulsa at a hospital.
In a press release to CBS4, Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz stated:
“Democrats have and will continue to pass commonsense gun safety laws supported by the majority of Americans. But until extremist Republicans value shooting victims and our school children more than the gun lobby and their money, they will remain complicit in America’s unrelenting gun carnage.”Â
President Biden known as to reinstate an assault weapons ban handed in 1994. If not, implement different measures Florida did following the Parkland taking pictures, from purple flag legal guidelines to elevating the age to 21 to purchase a firearm.
“Florida, which is hardly known for being a great progressive center in America, can take these commonsense steps,” stated Deutch, “Congress certainly ought to be able to do the same thing.”
Congresswoman Frederica S. Wilson shared with us:
“During a trip to China some years ago, I was fortunate enough to have visited a Chinese school. Towards the end of the tour, I asked the school children if they would like to come to the U.S. to visit and they responded with ‘no, we don’t want to get shot.’ That is how our country is now viewed around the world.”
We reached out to Sen. Marco Rubio, Sen. Rick Scott and several other Republican members of the House residing in South Florida. Still, none supplied us with a touch upon gun reform or Biden’s speech.
